Last week birding tour guides were awarded certificates after three weeks of training at Kitabi College of conservation and environment management at Nyungwe.
The event took place at Serena hotel. According to the chairman Tourism Chamber Edwin Sabuhoro, the three weeks study were aimed at training tour guides gain capacity on meeting and interacting with birds.
“Some of them see the birds, know them and hear them but did not have extra knowledge about them. The main essence was to train them to get more experience and represent the country’s purity in cultural tourism to increase revenue”, he said.
“Where there is tourism there is guiding”, said Manzi Kayihura chairman Rwanda Tour and Travel Association under tourism chamber.
“Guides had to get more knowledge on how to manage the needs of clients to have standards in every aspect of tourism; birding is very important in the tourist target market and requires high capital to improve the quality.
There are tourist organisations around Nyungwe which creates a high experience and it requires high capital to improve the quality,” said Manzi.
One of the students and a tour guide Noura shabamungu said, “it was enjoyable learning more on birds though it required more material.
This is going to increase the number of tourists who have been going to neighbouring countries. We have acquired general knowledge about Rwanda and customer care reactions,” he said.
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